STTR Phase I: Use of Serious Games to Improve Learning Outcomes in Engineering Programs

STTR 第一阶段：利用严肃游戏提高工程项目的学习成果

• 批准号: 1110223
• 负责人: Stephen Lynch
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Toolwire, Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1110223&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STTR; Phase; Use; Serious; Games

This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase 1 project combines the game-based learning scenario development and business entrepreneurship expertise of Toolwire Inc., with the instructional material development and evaluation expertise of the Laboratory for Innovative Technology and Engineering Education (LITEE) at Auburn University. They worked together to develop a pilot version of an engineering design Smart Scenario that included information on the Challenger STS 51-L case study. This was implemented in introductory engineering classes and an evaluation showed that the students perceived that they learned the subject matter deeply due to the gaming nature of this pilot. This evaluation reinforces results from earlier research that shows that serious games have the ability to improve student engagement, positively affect learning, and help retain students in engineering. This project will design and develop serious games in the four topics of engineering design, communications, ethics, and industrial safety for use in introductory engineering classes. These games will be implemented in introductory engineering classes. The evaluation methodology will use a Presage-Pedagogy-Process-Product-model using control and experimental classes. Data will be collected based on constructs designed to measure the variables in the 4-P model. The intellectual merit of this proposal is that it develops, implements, and tests a set of games that emphasize developing capabilities in addition to content, brings real-world problems into classrooms, uses gaming-technologies to mediate learning, includes assessment methodology in the games, and provides students multiple iterations to learn the concepts, thereby changing the approach to both teaching and learning in an introductory course.The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is its ability to directly provide massively effective parallel education in engineering by being scalable to different levels of classes, using compelling scenarios that lead to deep learning, triggering brain chemistry through games that better engages students in learning while being available anytime, anywhere through secure, web-based services. This combination of highly engaging ?active learning by doing? on advanced technology platforms achieves lower costs of delivery, greater long-term adoption of material in workforce development, improved user experiences and lower dropout rates. These serious games produce continuous experiential learning cycles for both students and teachers alike in both classroom and workplace contexts.

这个小型企业技术转移阶段1项目结合了Toolwire Inc.的基于游戏的学习场景开发和业务企业家精神专业知识，以及奥本大学创新技术和工程教育实验室的教学材料开发和评估专业知识。他们共同努力开发了工程设计智能场景的试点版，其中包括有关Challenger STS 51-L案例研究的信息。这是在入门工程课程中实施的，评估表明，由于该飞行员的游戏性质，学生认为他们深入了解了这一主题。这种评估加强了早期研究的结果，该研究表明，认真的游戏有能力改善学生的参与度，积极影响学习并帮助保留学生在工程学领域。该项目将在工程设计，沟通，道德和工业安全的四个主题中设计和开发严重的游戏，以用于入门工程课程。这些游戏将在入门工程课中实施。评估方法将使用对照和实验类别使用Presage-Petagogy-Proces-Prodocess-Products-Model。将根据旨在测量4-P模型中变量的构建体收集数据。该建议的智力优点在于，它开发，实施和测试一组强调除内容外，还将现实世界的问题除外，将现实世界的问题带入教室，使用游戏技术来调节学习，包括评估方法，包括游戏中的评估方法，并提供了多个迭代的概念，以使其在概念上进行概念，从而使这些概念既可以进行介绍和学习的范围，从而使这些概念具有介绍的能力。通过可扩展到不同级别的班级，使用引人入胜的场景，通过可实现深度学习，通过游戏触发大脑化学，从而更好地吸引学生学习，同时通过安全的，基于网络的基于网络，基于网络的服务，从而触发大脑化学，从而触发了大脑化学。高度吸引人的这种组合？在先进的技术平台上，可以实现较低的交付成本，更大的长期采用劳动力发展中的材料，改进的用户体验和降低率降低。这些严肃的游戏在课堂和工作场所环境中为学生和老师都能为学生和老师提供连续的体验式学习周期。